Some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Bayelsa State, forced out of their homes by flood, have been robbed of the relief materials they had stayed extra days at a camp for.

Displaced persons show life has been scuttled a little by flood, forcing them to live in uncompleted buildings as their recourse, are in tears gain.

They are crying, not because of the flood that had damaged their homes, but because with their own eyes they watched relief materials they had extended their stay in a camp for being taken away by criminals.

They had come into the internally Displaced Person's (IDPs) camp located at lgbogene in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State at night, at about 8:07 p.m on Wednesday with a vehicle.

Armed with guns,
machetes, axes and sticks. They unlocked one of the big blue caravans containing food
items donated to the IDPs by the government, churches, organisations and
individuals.

Bags of rice were neatly loaded into waiting vehicles and
taken out of the camp while the helpless men, women and children watched
silently.

The camp had closed on November 10, with IDPs receiving food and
non-food items and they were advised to go home.

But some of them refused to go home, insisting that the the smallest food item in the big
caravans must be distributed.

An
occupant of the uncompleted storey building, Mrs Grace Ekpo, told Bounce
News that there "were waiting for SEMA [State Emergency Management Agency] officials to come and give us rice.